[Hawflake]

Have any of you seen this? A 10.03 second production car!

http://sportcompactcarweb.com/features/0505_scc_skyline/

 

[Sp00ner]

I'm sorry, it's a nice car, but how do you call it a production car? They took used Skylines, and rebuilt them into monsters... that hardly seems like a production car. Lingenfelter sells a Corvette, that you can order through any Chevy dealer affiliated with the shop, and get a brand new, twin-turbo Corvette that at last test was well over 700hp, and did over 200mph out of the box, and you get it all for $20,000 less than that car right there... It's one thing to order a car and call it production, but to take a two year old car and rebuild it, that's not a production car to me...

 

[Blue04RedLine]

Production or not, it is a bad ass car, and somethin I would buy, if I were a bored millionaire.

 

[Hawflake]

I'm sorry, it's a nice car, but how do you call it a production car? They took used Skylines, and rebuilt them into monsters... that hardly seems like a production car. Lingenfelter sells a Corvette, that you can order through any Chevy dealer affiliated with the shop, and get a brand new, twin-turbo Corvette that at last test was well over 700hp, and did over 200mph out of the box, and you get it all for $20,000 less than that car right there... It's one thing to order a car and call it production, but to take a two year old car and rebuild it, that's not a production car to me...

Good point, I just finish reading the article, a grand total of 20 ain't exactly qualifying for production. It's not as if I will be buying one anyway.

Edit: Pretty good bang for the buck though.

 

[Sp00ner]

I sure as hell wouldn't turn it away if someone handed the keys to me...

 

[Vita]

i would do some VERY bad things for one of those, if only for exclusivity

 

[haunter]

Sport Compact Car is the devil

 

[djfreefall]

Sport Compact Car is the devil

Agreed!!!!!!!!!

 

[silv redman]

Bad A$$ car but i agree not a production car at $170,000 But it is sweet.

 

[weasel_j66]

I read that article in their mag a month or so ago. Killer car and personnally I've always liked the Skylines especially the R34's, but $170k might as well be a million to me. I'm just a working class stiff with a car fetish. A company up in LA somewhere called Motorex (or something like that) brings Skylines to the US, makes them street legal, and will sell you a used, about 30k miles, R34 for about $100k. They have a website that you can see what they have for sale. R32's sell for around 30-40k.

 

[matt]

The Skyline has got to be one of the most over hyped cars out there. What do they run, somewhere in the 13's stock right? There's plently of better cars out there. The Z tune is nice, but not $170K nice.

 

[Sp00ner]

There's alot more to that car than the 1/4 mile time. It also ran a 24 hour even at the N-ring and won. That's not easy. You can't just be fast there, you have to be fast through the twistes, up and downhill, etc. The track is meant to break cars, and it does so alot. It's also meant to be one of the most difficult to drive courses anywhere, long straightaways end downhill with a turn, and then back uphill with a hard, blind turn at the top. It's like judging a Corvette based on it's quarter mile time, or a Ferrari.

 

[haunter]

well, teh vette and ferrari's do pretty well in the 1/4 as well as handling

 

[Sp00ner]

Oh yea, no doubt, but you can also buy a Camaro, dump in a grand and be smoking stock Vettes in the 1/4. Put that same stock Vette, and the same Camaro on a road course, and it's much different. That's all I'm saying. People here tend to judge everything based on it's 1/4 mile time. I don't even like Skylines much, there a 'neat' car, but it's not Vette!

 

[blu4door]

They also have tons of mod potential. They aren't the fastest out of the box, but its not hard to make them the fastest.